Word: acronymically
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...interested to learn that the FOP Steering Committee has changed the meaning of its acronym to "First-Year" Outdoor Program, ridding themselves of the politically incorrect, gender un-neutral word "Freshman." I have also noticed that a similar decision has been made by the editorial powers-that-be at The Crimson. While I respect the motives behond such decisions, I wonder if too much concern for gender neutrality might lead to some confusion...
...takes is a change in the meaning of an acronym to spend a week in the woods, does that mean I can be a FOPper again? I am, after all, a fourth-year. We might as well be consistent with our terms and get rid of sophomore, junior and senior as well. It would also make it a little easier to figure out which of our friends have taken a little longer than usual to graduate--we'd have fifth and sixth-years. But I suppose that isn't what the chairman (excuse me, chairperson) of the steering committee...
With the line's success in its three games together, aficionadoes are already comparing the trio to the nationally feared H-E-M and S-A-M lines at crosstown B.C. and B.U. Too bad V-C-D isn't a convenient acronym...
...Freshman Outdoor Program (FOP) announced earlier this week that it was officially changing its name to the First-Year Outdoor Program. The change to gender neutrality, which will not affect the FOP acronym or its logo, was first proposed by the group's steering committee last year...
...besieged by posters of soft pornography right before parent's weekend, I wondered? How exciting! But, to my intense disappointment, this was not going to be. "Imagine what else I could have learned!" No, we were instead deluged by text from a group with the most annoying acronym in modern history...